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COLUMBUS, Ohio – Dan Henderson still has it.

The 40-year-old former PRIDE world champion and UFC tournament winner was wobbled early by Rafael “Feijao” Cavalcante but battled back to land his signature right hand and claim Strikeforce’s light heavyweight title.

The bout served as the main event of Saturday night’s “Strikeforce: Feijao vs. Henderson” event, which took place at Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio, and aired on Showtime.

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BRUSQUE, Brazil — Saturday night in the southern Brazilian city of Brusque, it was a little-known underdog that conquered Nitrix Fight’s bantamweight tournament: his name is John Lineker.

Southern Brazil’s top promotion returned with its sixth major installment at the Brusque Multiuse Arena. Before a crowd of nearly 2000 locals, Lineker emerged as one of the country’s top young 135-pounders, smashing both Alessandro Cordeiro and Diego D’Avila to take the four-man, one-night tournament featuring the region’s top bantamweights.

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Thanks to an injury from top contender and tournament winner Pat Curran,
Bellator Fighting Championships officials got the lightweight main
event they always hoped for: Eddie Alvarez vs. Roger Huerta.

The two explosive 155-pound sluggers did not disappoint.

In an action-heavy non-title affair, Eddie Alvarez proved once again why
he’s considered among the best lightweights in the world by dismantling
“El Matador” for 10 minutes in the main event of Thursday’s Bellator 33
event at the Liacouras Center in Philadelphia.

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For the opening five minutes of Thursday’s Bellator 27 main event, the
self-described “baddest man on the planet” looked like anything but.

Then came round two.

After getting tagged throughout the first round with lead left hands and
nasty right uppercuts, Joe Warren uncorked a
powerful barrage of strikes that left former champion Joe Soto unconscious on the floor.

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